A survey of families receiving food aid conducted by the Latet organization, which supplies food to the needy, found that almost 75% of the families who need medicine and receive support from charitable food distribution organizations cannot afford to buy medicine.

A 14-year-old Palestinian who was hospitalized in Israel after being shot in the leg by Israel Defense Forces soldiers has been held in arm and leg restraints since Friday, even though he is guarded 24 hours a day by two Military Police officers

In June 2004, B'Tselem wrote to attorney Herzl Svero, the head of the Department for the Investigation of Police, of the State Attorney's Office, demanding an investigation of an incident of severe maltreatment of a Palestinian in early April 2004.

Judge Menachem Raniel, with the Haifa Magistrate's Court, issued an unprecedented ruling stating that firing rubber bullets when it is necessary to protect the main traffic routes “is reasonable.”

Yesterday, November 30, charges were filed against two 17-year-old boys suspected of cutting down 120 Palestinian grapevines near the Givat Hasharon settlement, near Hebron , about two weeks ago.

The legal adviser to city of Jerusalem has told the Israel Police and the Housing Ministry in a letter that police and the ministry became “accessories to a crime” when they helped settlers from the Ateret Cohanim nonprofit organization* take possession of an illegally constructed building in East Jerusalem and paid for its protection.

Mofaz is breaking the law

“Welcome to the club of forgotten report-writers.” This is what Yehudit Karp, a former state prosecutor, told attorney Talia Sasson after the latter released her report on [illegal] settlement outposts. The report addresses the ways the outposts were established and maintained in the territories, as well as the impending dismantling of dozens of them.

Soldiers' voices

Sometimes you find letters in your mail box you can't ignore. Often letters I receive start with the sentence, “As a media figure with a voice in Israeli culture…” It may be [PR mogul] Ran Rahav inviting me to some opening or another, or it might be a young writer who composed a novel or a book of poetry and wants to reach the public.

Palestinian population registry did not “disengage” from computers in Israel

Next month, as is the case every October, the Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza will begin issuing 16-year-olds their first identity cards. Each 16-year-old will bring photographs and documentation to his school, which will pass them on to the ministry.

You exist if the Israeli computer says so

Commentators in the media and elsewhere proclaimed after the disengagement from Gaza that “the frontier posts in the Strip are now international crossings,” and that “removing Israeli control of access to Gaza is in line with the national interest of ending the occupation.”

The damage outweighs the benefits

The Civil Torts (Liability of the State) Law gives Israel immunity against lawsuits for damages resulting from IDF military operations.

Once again the olive orchards will become closed military zones

Yesterday marked seven months since the cabinet decision approving the report prepared by attorney Talia Sasson on illegal outposts.

Question

I read what you wrote about it being forbidden to enter a monastery or a church on any occasion, no matter what. But what about the wedding of a relative of a Jewish convert?

Question

Kind greetings,

My question is this: Is there a problem with visiting the graves of a Christian, a friend of the Jews, and is this permissible if the grave is in a monastery yard?

Thank you in advance.

Reverend William Somplatsky-Jarman combines a career as a senior clergyman with the management of an investment portfolio that comprises more than $7 billion.

Course of wall around Jerusalem changed under pressure from the Vatican

Israel was roundly condemned when Jerusalem churches and the Christian world discovered a few years ago that it intended to follow through on its decision to build a wall around Jerusalem. Among Israel's detractors were the Latin Patriarchate, the Armenian Patriarchate, and the head of the Franciscan order.

This evening a group of ultra-orthodox Jews attacked and injured Beit Jan resident Najib Qays. Area residents and Qays' young daughter reported that the man was attacked while working in his orchard in the Zabud area north of Beit Jan

One law for all terror victims

An interministerial committee headed by a Defense Ministry official recently decided that people wounded in the terror attack in Shfaram and the families of the slain would not be recognized as terror victims under the Victims of Enemy Action Law.

“They're killing us all over again”

“The police, under the protection of the Israeli system, are killing us all over again,” said Hassan Asala, the father of 17-year-old Asil Asala, who was shot and killed by police during the October 2000 riots.

Racism and treason

A leader of the Arab sector announced that he intended to demand the trial of several attorneys with the Interior Ministry's Police Internal Affairs Bureau.

Close the PID

Yes, close it down. Even after the decision to reopen the cases that were closed regarding the October 2000 disturbances, there is no choice but to dismantle the Justice Ministry's Police Investigations Department (PID) and rebuild it from the foundations.

At two in the morning on Sunday, October 2, overcome with drowsiness, I was standing in the security line at Ben-Gurion Airport, on my way to Switzerland on a regular trip to meet with a client.

Parents complain that the Ministry of Education is making it difficult for children with special needs to integrate into the educational system

Three-year-old twins, Gilad and Daniel Evan, will go to a regular kindergarten this year, which is no easy matter for their mother, Dalia. Since they are both autistic, they have thus far attended a special kindergarten.

Finance Ministry will not give budget for activities for tens of thousands of the disabled

The accountant general's office at the Finance Ministry has decided not to transfer to community centers nationwide 2.5 million shekels for social activities for the handicapped.

We ask for forgiveness

Our forefathers decreed that Yom Kippur allows a person to repent for transgressing the laws that govern the relationship between man and God, not the laws that govern the relationship between man and man.

What can the disabled do during Sukkoth?

There are about 500,000 disabled people living in Israel , 200,000 of whom are severely disabled. Dozens of celebrations, large and official, small and intimate, are held in Israel throughout the days of Sukkoth, known as the holiday of festivals.

“Poverty worsened in 2005 as well”

Statistics published today by Latet,* a preview of the alternative poverty report which will be issued in its entirety next week, indicate that 69% of those in need of food aid also require regular medication.

Opinion poll: Shas takes the lead on the broken Likud

An opinion poll conducted by the Dahaf Institute under Dr. Mina Zemach and published this morning in Yediot Aharonot found that if elections were held now, the Likud would fall to a new low and win only ten seats, down from 13 seats in the poll conducted last week by Dr. Zemach.

Opinion poll from the Israeli Second Broadcast Network

The poll gauged voting patterns for parties in the coming elections based on two political scenarios:

1. The Likud headed by Netanyahu

An opinion poll conducted by Hot News in the south revealed that 20% of the Negev's Jewish residents think that the Bedouins should have their Israeli citizenship revoked and be deported.